Craig Zimring
Biographic Data
| ID | 1557029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Zimring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimring |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMRING C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3991-3603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cognitive-Aging-in-Place
Beyond Co-location
The importance of communication among healthcare providers has been long recognized, and many healthcare organizations are implementing team-based care, with emphasis on staff communication. While previous empirical studies in various settings illustrate the role of built environments in user communication, there is a lack of quantified interpersonal spatial metrics to predict interactions. This study investigates how interpersonal spatial metric…
Designing for Effective and Safe Multidisciplinary Primary Care Teamwork
Effective medical teamwork can improve the effectiveness and experience of care for staff and patients, including safety. Healthcare organizations, and especially primary care clinics, have sought to improve medical teamwork through improved layout and design, moving staff into shared multidisciplinary team rooms. While co-locating staff has been shown to increase communication, successful designs balance four teamwork needs: face-to-face communi…
Cultural impacts on nursing unit design
This study attempts to understand cultural impacts on nursing unit design through a comparative study on Chinese nursing unit typologies and their U.S. counterparts. The focus is to investigate whether seemingly westernized Chinese nursing units still retained certain characteristics of Chinese socio-cultural preferences; and how configurational differences of Chinese and American nursing unit design reflect the different work styles and organiza…
A Review of the Research Literature on Evidence-Based Healthcare Design
Methods: Research teams conducted a new and more exhaustive search for rigorous empirical studies that link the design of hospital physical environments with healthcare outcomes. The review followed a two-step process, including an extensive search for existing literature and a screening of each identified study for the relevance and quality of evidence. Results: This review found a growing body of rigorous studies to guide healthcare design, esp…
Stress And The Designed Environment
This paper focuses on ways that the design of the physical environment affects important individual goals, such as appropriate levels of social interaction and wayfinding and spatial orientation. A preliminary framework is proposed that suggests that the design of the environment causes stress by affecting person‐environment fit. Next, the role of the physical environment in the regulation of social interaction and in wayfinding and spatial orien…
Stress And The Designed Environment
This paper focuses on ways that the design of the physical environment affects important individual goals, such as appropriate levels of social interaction and wayfinding and spatial orientation. A preliminary framework is proposed that suggests that the design of the environment causes stress by affecting person‐environment fit. Next, the role of the physical environment in the regulation of social interaction and in wayfinding and spatial orien…
Cognitive-Aging-in-Place
Stress And The Designed Environment
This paper focuses on ways that the design of the physical environment affects important individual goals, such as appropriate levels of social interaction and wayfinding and spatial orientation. A preliminary framework is proposed that suggests that the design of the environment causes stress by affecting person‐environment fit. Next, the role of the physical environment in the regulation of social interaction and in wayfinding and spatial orien…
A Review of the Research Literature on Evidence-Based Healthcare Design
Methods: Research teams conducted a new and more exhaustive search for rigorous empirical studies that link the design of hospital physical environments with healthcare outcomes. The review followed a two-step process, including an extensive search for existing literature and a screening of each identified study for the relevance and quality of evidence. Results: This review found a growing body of rigorous studies to guide healthcare design, esp…
Cultural impacts on nursing unit design
This study attempts to understand cultural impacts on nursing unit design through a comparative study on Chinese nursing unit typologies and their U.S. counterparts. The focus is to investigate whether seemingly westernized Chinese nursing units still retained certain characteristics of Chinese socio-cultural preferences; and how configurational differences of Chinese and American nursing unit design reflect the different work styles and organiza…
Designing for Effective and Safe Multidisciplinary Primary Care Teamwork
Effective medical teamwork can improve the effectiveness and experience of care for staff and patients, including safety. Healthcare organizations, and especially primary care clinics, have sought to improve medical teamwork through improved layout and design, moving staff into shared multidisciplinary team rooms. While co-locating staff has been shown to increase communication, successful designs balance four teamwork needs: face-to-face communi…
Beyond Co-location
The importance of communication among healthcare providers has been long recognized, and many healthcare organizations are implementing team-based care, with emphasis on staff communication. While previous empirical studies in various settings illustrate the role of built environments in user communication, there is a lack of quantified interpersonal spatial metrics to predict interactions. This study investigates how interpersonal spatial metric…
Cognitive-Aging-in-Place
Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (3 works) · Medical education (2 works) · Patient safety (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)